The Amazon faces a variety of security challenges, ranging from historical issues such as high homicide rates, theft, drug trafficking, and violence against women to new threats to the region’s rich biodiversity, including deforestation, illegal logging, illegal mining, and land grabbing. Considering the complexity of
The Brazilian Legal Amazon is the site of a complex ecosystem of environmental and related non-environmental crimes that impact both the environment and the people living there. Organized environmental crime contributes in many ways to the destruction and degradation of the forest, significantly accelerating land
New Capacity Building and Information Sharing Efforts Will Help Protect the Amazon WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition welcomes the recent announcement by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen of the new Amazon Region Initiative Against Illicit Finance, which will target
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